SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed legislation that would require the state to fully reimburse local governments for the damage they suffered in last year’s Southern California wildfires and central coast earthquake.

Schwarzenegger also said Wednesday he turned down bills that would protect janitors’ jobs for 90 days when their companies are sold and encourage schools to teach about Filipinos’ role in World War II.

The Republican governor said he supported fully reimbursing local agencies for damage to their facilities stemming from the wildfires that ravaged much of rural Southern California last fall and included $8.5 million for that purpose in his budget proposals.

But he balked at two other provisions in the bill by Sen. Nell Soto, D-Pomona:

A requirement that the state spend $3 million to fully reimburse local governments for the quake that rocked the central coast last December. Schwarzenegger, who toured hard-hit Paso Robles after the quake, said the state didn’t have the money.

A provision that would give enhanced income tax breaks to individuals and businesses that suffered losses in the fires or quake. Schwarzenegger said that would cost the state $18 million over the next few years.

Current law requires the state to reimburse local governments for up to 75 percent of the damage to their essential-services property when there is a state-declared disaster. In some instances, the state must pay for 100 percent of the damage.

The janitors’ bill, by Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys, would protect janitors’ jobs for at least 90 days when their janitorial services company is sold. Under current law, a new employer with at least 25 employees must retain janitors for at least 60 days.

Supporters said the bill would give janitors stability and a better chance to keep their jobs, but Schwarzenegger said the measure would expand “an already troubling precedent in regulating the private sector.”

He said recognized the “phenomenal contributions of Filipinos during World War II,” but vetoed the bill by Assemblyman Jerome Horton, D-Inglewood, because the state should “refrain from prescribing too much of the details of school curriculum.”

Researchers said Sunday the mass die-off occurred because unusually large amounts of sea ice forced penguin parents to travel farther in search of food for their young. By the time they returned, only two out of thousands of chicks had survived.